Month: June 2026

Congratulations to Grace Brigham, Rachel Hong, and Yael Eiger for passing their milestone exams this quarter!

• Grace passed her Qualifying Exam, completing the first of three major milestones on the path to a PhD! She presented her work “Examining Risks through a Characterization of the AI Companion Application Ecosystem” to the public and committee members Lucy Qin and Yoshi Kohno.
• Rachel and Yael passed their General Exams (aka dissertation proposal), the last official milestone in the Allen School PhD process before the final defense.
  • Rachel presented her work “Al entanglement: Exploring legal and societal implications of insidious model dependencies in Al development supply chains” to the public and committee members Emily Bender, Jevan Hutson, Jamie Morgenstern, and Yoshi Kohno.
  • Yael presented her work “Technology Before, During, and After Incarceration” to the public and committee members Katherine Beckett, Dan Berger, Jevan Hutson, Yoshi Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.

The Security Lab had some exciting posters at the Allen School Undergraduate/BSMS Research Showcase! Congrats on all their hard work this year!

• Efficient Client-side Auditing for Key Transparency Systems. Tiago Ugarte-Wright, Ally Tribble, Larry Mei, Nirvan Tyagi
• Efficient Auditing for Public Key Infrastructure via Server-Aided Gossiping. Shruti Badrish, Andrew Chen, Alexander Tarnavski, Nirvan Tyagi
• Do websites respect user choice? Zhorzh Zelenkov, Jack Lin, Daniel Ballesteros, Yael Eiger, Franziska Roesner
  • 🏆 Winner of the “People’s Choice” Crowd Favorite Award!
• Privacy Leakage During WiFi Network Discovery and Associated User Harms. Taylor Hansen, Yael Eiger, Franziska Roesner